Sault Prospector's field trip to the
Elliot Lake Area, |
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Start of Elliot Lake Fieldtrip |
Buckles Mine Lookout. |
Delio Tortosa pointing at sedimentary dike (Matinenda Fm) in Archean basement. |
A few of the field trip participants. |
Mike Easton looking at possible Livingstone Creek Formation unconformably overlying Archean greenstone. |
Anthony with scintillometer on gently north dipping lower Matinenda Formation, south limb. |
Vivienne on top of Spine Road Uranium Occurrence |
Spine Road Uranium Occurrence; mineralized quartz-pebble conglomerate, basal Matinenda Formation, south limb. |
Lunch stop Spine Lake Road; SDPA crew |
Lunch stop Spine Lake Road; OGS crew. |
Gently north dipping Mississaugi Formation, south limb |
Mississaugi Formation and fieldtrip participants |
Bud Clavet; Bruce Formation paraconglomerate. |
Vivienne and Delio, Espanola Formation 'algal mats' displaying small scale offsets. |
Soft sediment deformation in the Espanola Formation. |
'debris flows' in the Gowganda Formation dipping north, south limb. |
Mike Hailstone pointing at drop stone in Pecors Formation argillite, north limb. |
Ramsey Lake Formation paraconglomerate overlain by Pecors Formation argillite, north limb. |
Steeply south-dipping basal conglomerate ('lag deposit') overlying Archean Granite, north limb. |
Cloe standing on granitic basement beside basal 'lag' deposit, north limb unconformity. |
Boulder 'fanglomerate' of the Livingstone Creek Formation, Pronto Mine area. |
Verdun Venn standing on mineralized basal quartz-pebble conglomerate, Matinenda Formation at unconformity with Granitic basement, Pronto Mine. |
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Photography by: Delio Tortosa, Anthony Pace, Vivienne Cote, Mike Hailstone |
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